Definition of "varsity" []

• The principal team representing a university, college, or school in sports, games, or other competitions. (noun)
• Chiefly British A university. (noun)

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• "The contest between Dean and Gephardt is what I call the varsity contest for first place."
• "I have to wonder if one reason that Iowa has such a high percentage of HS participation in varsity sports is because the average school size is smaller with all the small towns."
• "In HuffPost Hill's opinion, the video would have been much more effective had it been cast as a 50s sci-fi/horror movie trailer (footage of clean-cut jocks in varsity jackets driving their 57 Chevys away from some oncoming terror, cutting away to a pretty girl in a poodle skirt and a bowtie in her hair to answer the phone and hear the words "THE ARAB-AMERICANS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE," etc)."